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Interview

Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson is an author, existentialist philosopher and scholar of the occult. He has been writing fact and fiction for nearly fifty years. On the launch of his autobiography, Alan Morrison thought this might be an apt time to speak to the man himself.

Wilson was first catapulted to fame in 1956 with the publication of his seminal philosophical work, The Outsider. It was written over two years in the reading rooms of the British Museum while Wilson slept rough in various London parks to save on rent. On its publication he was instantly hailed a genius and billeted in with the likes of John (Look Back in Anger) Osborne as one of the new generation of Angry Young Men. But this comparison was a specious contemporaneous cop-out according to Wilson himself, who disassociates from that movement.

Wilson followed The Outsider with Religion and the Rebel, and his debut novel, Ritual in the Dark.

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